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The Vendee Globe Adventure Links
Track the Sailboats in the Vendee Globe!
Where is the Great American 3?
Listen to the latest **podcast** from Skipper Rich Wilson.Boston.com article about Rich Wilson in the Vendee Globe
Boston Globe article about Rich Wilson in the Vendee Globe, Sunday 11/23/08
Check the marine forecast.
Sailing Simulator
The Water Cycle a slideshow with audio that explains the water cycle.
Observe an Animation of Land and Sea Breezes
What are the doldrums? Click on this animation link to see.
Observe an Animation of the Earth's Spheres: geosphere (rocky part of planet), hydrosphere (water in liquid, solid, and gaseous phases), biosphere (life forms), atmosphere (blanket of gases)
Wave Simulator
Observe a wave as they break on the shore
Observe the Energy of a Wave Motion
Visualization: Examine Global Surface Currents Move the cursor over the image to reveal the direction of global winds.
Learn About Sailboats and then play a game!
Click 'Full Screen' and 'Start'. Then click on the boat.
Dragonfly TV Sailing Episode by Emmanuel and GiGi
Sail Safe
PBS Dragonfly TV Sailing Game
Penguins in Peril
Deep Sea Diversin Antarctica Videoclips of their undersea exploration
Video of Climatic Change in Antarctica
Watch a video of a Flying Fish on the BBC (There is an ad that comes up at first.)
Mares Build a Fish
High Seas
What Is Climate? from the Weather Whiz Kids site
All About Wind from the Weather Whiz Kids site
Animation of the Planetary Wind Systems
What are Weather Instruments? from the Weather Whiz Kids site
EdheadsWeather Predicting
World Weather News
Intellicast Global Weather Maps
Ocean Weather Data from Oceanweather Inc: Current Marine Data Click on a region in the left column. Then choose the data that you would like to see from the three circles at the top.
Satellite Picture of the Western Atlantic (loop)
Edheads Temperature Converter Fahrenheit to Celsius/Celsius to Fahrenheit
Interactive Weather Activity- Scholastic
The EPA Climate Change Kids Page Climate Change and Earth Process Animations: Global Warming, Water Cycle, and Carbon Cycle
Geospy Geography Game
Online Geography Games Sheppard Software: Click on World Geography Games
Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries From the National Marine Sanctuary Program
Click on the View Movie and a screen will pop up where you will can click on many videos of marine life.
Monteray Bay Aquarium Video Collection
ARKIVE: images and videos of thousands of animals
Smithsonian Museum Click on Ocean Views to see slides; press the circle to advance to next slide.
Webcams at the Monteray Bay Aquarium
Whale Image Slideshow
Animal Sounds from Under the Sea
Explore the Sea Note: Please do not click on Google ads on this page since they will lead you off of the website.
Reafvid: Free Reef Video Clip Database A database of 500 videoclips provided for educational and research use. You are required to put in an email address to access this site. You can use the address: jacksonstudent@ymail.com
Exploration Through the Ages Read about explorers through the ages and their ships, their tools of navigation, and their voyages.
Explore the online collections of the maritime museum.
Watch Dragonfly TV videos of real scientists following their dreams and telling about the work that they do.
Longitude by Dava Sobel Learn about the history of the longitude problem.
Harrison's Prize
An Interview with Dava Sobel on her book Longitude (RealAudio required)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/textindex.html
Learn About a GPS
What is Greenwich Mean Time?
The Great American 3 crossed the equator today. You can see the Jackson flag flying in the wind!!
sitesALIVE! Vendee Globe
Thinkfinity Weblink
Vendeeglobe
The Vendee Globe gets underway: General information about the Open 60's
Enchanted Learning Ocean Animal Printouts
Learningpage.com free_pages/galleries/oceans worksheets for Grades K, 1, 2, 3 sample pages free
Treasures at Sea Rainbows Fish Puzzle
Max and Brian Make A Monohaul and a Multihaul to Learn More About Sailing Dragonfly Kids TV Show
Dragonfly TV Episode: Make a Milk Carton Boat with milk cartons and packing tape.
Oceans: Welcome to Life in the Ocean A Website Designed by a teacher for students in grades 2 - 3. Links at the end are not active.
Temperate Oceans
What's Troubling Our Oceans?
Sails Best Little Learn To Sail Book Ever by Brad Dellenbaugh
Terms and Parts of a Sailboatfrom the US Sailing site
Songs
A Sailor Went to the Sea
Hold on or Go With the Flow
Fun Songs for Children From Seaworld
The Mayflower
The Mayflower was a merchant vessel that sailed in 1620 from Plimoth to America. Follow this journey on this interactive map.
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